Those pesky Palestinian terrorists don’t seem to mind that their homemade rockets are falling on their own civilians and killing them. They accidentally wiped out an entire family the other day. Oops. About a fifth of their missiles malfunction and come back down in Hamas controlled Gaza. They’re doing Israel’s job for them.
Innocent Palestinian civilians
Innocent civilians in Palestinian territory are feeling the brunt of the war. Adding insult to the injury, they’re being murdered by the incompetence of their own forces. It doesn’t help that the rockets are being home-built in basements from scrounged materials.
Even though they bomb their own people, they blame every single one of the deaths on the Jews. The latest count is that 700 of the rockets fired by Hamas from Gaza, 20% of the total, fell in Gaza.
On Wednesday, the Israeli Defense Force issued an investigation report blaming Palestine for the mistake which wiped out “a family of eight in the Beit Hanoun area.” It wasn’t us, the Israelis insist.
The airstrike “was not an Israeli operation, but a Palestinian rocket gone awry.” They call it “a frequent occurrence.” It’s amazing that the Associated Press is able to get stories out, since the IDF bombed their office building to dust but they have something to say about the misfires.
They actually talked to some Israeli military officials who explained that the “mysterious explosion that killed eight members of a Palestinian family on the first day of the current round of fighting in the Gaza Strip” was caused by a misfired Hamas rocket, “not an Israeli airstrike.”
Military spokesman Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus confirmed that “the rocket was launched in Gaza and fell inside Gaza and killed almost an entire family. This wasn’t an Israeli attack.”
WATCH as a Hamas rocket aimed at Israel misfires and falls back into Gaza.
But this isn't the 1st time—Hamas misfired 350 rockets in the last 3 days.
These rockets result in the deaths of innocent Gazan civilians.
It's time for the world to hold Hamas accountable. pic.twitter.com/vmhmXTZrl6
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) May 13, 2021
The whole world knows
Last week, the Israelis posted video that went viral showing one such Palestinian rocket failure. They say it’s time “for the world to hold Hamas accountable.” Human rights organizations have long known what terrible shots Hamas terrorists are.
For more than a decade, they fully recognized that Hamas rockets were aimed at Israeli civilians. That right there is a war crime. For just as long, they have been putting their own civilians in danger. Even Jew-hating Human Rights Watch admitted it in 2009.
All the way back then, Human Rights Watch admitted that the “unpredictable nature” of the “crude rockets” means that they hit “areas not only inside Israel but also inside Gaza.”
For instance, the day after Christmas, December 26, “a rocket hit a house in Beit Lahiya, killing two Palestinian girls, ages 5 and 12.” Hamas and their splinter groups are well known to fire “rockets from within populated areas” which is another war crime because it puts the neighbors at risk.
The Geneva Convention says they “failed to take all feasible precautions to avoid placing military targets within densely populated areas.” Like putting the Hamas top official’s offices in the same building as the Associated Press and Al Jazeera. They never expected Israel to bomb AP but they did.
Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups are supposed to remove “civilians under their control from the vicinity of military targets.” Not only that, they’re supposed to protect civilians from the danger resulting from military operations,” not expose them to it by bombing them accidentally.
